Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-10-20
PENINsULAR POINTERS.

PENlNsULAR POINTERS.
The In lustrial school at Big Rapids is
we'll patroni1ed.
Cgemaw county will bond itself to erect
a new court house.
Hillsdale county is taking vigorous steps
to secure local option.
Ex-GOv. Begole is president Of the
Flint humane society.
An otter five feet long was killed at
BOyne Falls the other day.
Congressman Ford of Grand Rapids will
stump Iowa for democracy.
The Monroe grape shipments were larg-
er this year than ever before.
Attention Sportsmen! You can shoot
wild turkeys till January 1st.
Rumored that the Lansing wagon works
will remove to Grand Rapids.
Michael Omahara was found dead In
bed at Port Hope the other day.
Chester Hilton was killed by the cars
near White Cloud the other day,
Seventy-five ear loads of grapes have
been shipped from Lawton this season.
a
pack of eight near Hillman the other day.
Considerable quantity of red cedar is
being cut in Menominee county this sea-
son.
The manufacture of silk and felt hats
is to be commenced in Flint by an eastern
firm.
Luther Wheaton committed suicide in
ST. Johns, by cutting his pulses with a
razor.
Samuel Hewlett of Waterford, Oakland,
county, resident of Michigan since 1882,
is dead.
The fund towards permanent exposi-
ton i'm Grand Rapids amounts to about
S45, 900.
John Anderson, a miner in the Calumet
& Hecla mine was instantly killed the
other day.
Edward Cook Is In limbo at Flint for
having two wives more than the law al
lows him.
Mrs. Mary F. Oswood of Battle Creek,
hung herself in the Michigan asylum for
the insane.
Capt. f. c. Bates, government inspector
at Muskegon, died suddenly of paralysis,
a few days ago.
Martin Boaosky was run over by the
cars at Flint the other morning and died
two hours later.
Total premiums of state fair $4,000, of
which 81, 96s goes to Jackson and S610 to
jackson county,
Michigan's wheat yield is estimated at
1873 bushels per acre; barley yield, 49,
bushels per acre.
Coal has been found on Horace Brown S
farm near Eagle, Clinton county. The
vein Is 3 II feet thick.
The bands from Greenville and Albion
competed for prizes at the military en-
campment in Chicago.
VIII Drake, son of l.. c. Drake of Saline,
was murdered near Sulphur Springs, Ari-
IONA, short time ago.
Work on the Toledo, Ann Arbor &
Northern Michigan car shops at Owosso
is to be commenced at once.
Contributions of 81, 047. 90 in cash, and
S1,691.25 in pledges were taken up at the
Adventists' camp meeting.
Altoona county has been enjoined from
selling pine lands on its delinquent tax
lists under $40, 900 penalty.
There is much suffering at Ishpeming
because railway contractors refuse to en-
ploy laborers sent there by agents.
DR.. Heneage Gibbs of London has been
appointed t. fill the chair of pathology in
the university at salary of 50, 200.
John Barber of Edwardsburg has been
added to the list of delegates to the national
farmers congress to be held in Chicago in
November.
While VIM. Brown, farmer living near
Detroit, was grooming his horse, the ami
NAL kicked him in the face disfiguring
him for life.
Mrs. Marian Todd of Michigan was
among the delegates who were refused adj
mission to the general assembly X. of L..
| in Minneapolis.
Chas. Macard, convicted of killing
Michael O'Hara near Grand Rapids in
| August last, has been sentenced to Jack
| son for four years.
According to recent decision of the
| supreme court III uor cases brought but
not tried under the old law, can be tried
under the new law.
John Bacon, discharged from Michigan
| Central employ at Niles with intimation
OF tntIl as cdu.e y, DrOuRHI suit anu settled
| for $500 and written retraction.
Bear River i'm Macomb county, Is to be
deepened and widened, and thus the rich
and valuable bottom lands in several town
ships in that county will be reclaimed.
President Willis says that the attend
ance at the agricultural college would be
increased 500 IL cheap and quick access To
Lansing we're secured by street railway.
McRae, Ially & Son of Detroit have
been given the contract for the construc-
ton of the Toledo, saginaw u Mackinac
road, between East Saginaw and Durand.
| Emil Wagner, aged 10, was instantly
killed by shock of electricity while put
ting on change puly at Hodges foundry
at Houghton. A suit for heavy damages
will probably be bought by young Wagner
| family.
Thomas Barnes, Jr., was arrested In
Port Huron the other day, for horse steal
ing near Inlay City. He escaped from
The officer on the way 10 Inlay City, but
was recaptured.
The body of Louis ID. Erwin of Muske-
gan was found floating In Muskegan lake
the other day. He had been missing for
some time, and nothing could be learned
OF his whereabouts.
The specific tax on refined copper re-
ceiyed from the mines by the Houghton
county treasurer for the year 1886 was
S12, 239,03. The tax levied Is 10 cents pei
ton Of 1900 pounds.